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March 11, 2019 05:57 pm GMT

Crappy in-display fingerprint readers are ruining new phones

In-display fingerprint readers — biometric sensors embedded within the screens of many new phones — are garbage. They must be purged from all future devices unless they get significantly better soon.

There, I said it, and boy does it feel great to get that off my chest. Because it's true. 

SEE ALSO: 5G will be crazy fast, but it'll be worthless without unlimited data

As a tech reviewer, I'm in the enviable position of being able to test out new devices before they trickle down to everyone.  

Sometimes it's great and sometimes it's not. It sucked to live without a headphone jack on the iPhone 7, but was life-changing to use AirPods before anyone else could. It was really fun to use phones like the Vivo Nex S and Oppo Find X, with its motorized cameras, and even the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3, with its fidgety sliding design. Read more...

More about Android, Samsung, Smartphones, Fingerprint Sensor, and Biometrics

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